We recently used the Shadow Puppet App to share some nonfiction writing. Here is one of my students reading his nonfiction writing.
{By the way - this writing activity ties in beautifully with the story "How Leopard Got His Spots" that is in the first grade Journeys reading series.}
Day 1
Zebra Writing
We read and discussed the book shown below and then we made a class word bank for students to refer to when writing.
Student then wrote several sentences about zebras and illustrated their pictures.
Day 2
Leopard Writing
We read and discussed the book shown below and then we made a class word bank for students to refer to when writing.
Day 3
Title and Table of Contents
I gave my students their title and table of content pages. We assembled the books, they added a title and filled in their table of contents page with the page numbers.
Note: If we would have had more time, I would have added a giraffe page to their books. And next time we do this, I will have my students add some labels to their illustrations as well.
Here are a couple more student examples and if you go to the bottom of this post you can grab the nonfiction writing template {free} to use with your students.
You can grab yourself a copy at this link:
Happy Writing!
